The Segmental Morphophonology of American Languages

Summer Semester 20223 • Thursday 9:15-10:45 • NSG, S 213

Papers | Books and Dissertations | Moodle | Contact

In this course we discuss segmental processes in the indigenous languages of the Americas (e.g., Eskimo-Aleut, Iroquoian, Mayan, Arawakan), and their significance for theoretical models of phonology. An empirical focus of the course are segment-zero alternations (epenthesis and deletion) and the phonology of pharyngeal and laryngeal features. Theoretical emphasis will be on the interaction of phonological processes with morphosyntactic structure in stratal models of morphophonology. Readings:

Papers

• Stonham, J. (2007) Nuuchahnulth Double Reduplication and Stratal Optimality Theory. Canadian Journal of Linguistics 52(1/2):105-130. (pdf)
• Buckley, E. (2021) M-Words, P-Words, and Accent Phrases in Kashaya. In: Ks. Bogolomets & H. van der Hulst (eds.) Prominence in languages with complex morphology. Oxford University Press. (pdf)
• Bloomfield, L. (1939). Menomini morphophonemics. Travaux du Cercle Linguistique de Prague, 8:105–115.
• Monica Macaulay & Joseph Salmons (2017) Synchrony and diachrony in Menominee derivational morphology. Morphology 27:179–215. (pdf)
• Kiparsky, Paul (2021) Phonology to the rescue: Nez Perce morphology revisited. The Linguistic Review 2021; 38(3): 391–442. (pdf)
• Sharon Hargus & Siri G. Tuttle (1997) Augmentation as Affixation in Athabaskan Languages. Phonology 14(2):177-220. (pdf)
• Cole, Jennifer (1986) The Interaction of Phonology and Morphology in Seri. NELS 17(1). (pdf)
• Kean, M.-L. (1974). The strict cycle in phonology. Linguistic Inquiry 5:2179-203. (on Klamath) (pdf)
• Zoll, C. (2002). Vowel reduction and reduplication in Klamath. Linguistic Inquiry 33(3):520–527. (pdf)
• Gleim, Daniel (2021) Theoretical Implications of Directionally Asymmetric Transparency. Proceedings of AMP 2020. (pdf)
• Staroverov, Peter. (2015) [t]-epenthesis revisited. the case of Apurucayali. Ms., Universität Leipzig.
• Miller, Taylor L. (2015) A Prosodic Analysis of the Word in Kiowa, UPenn Working Papers in Linguistics 21(1):Article 20. (pdf)
• Lombardi, L. and McCarthy, J. J. (1991). Prosodic circumscription in Choctaw morphology. Phonology, 8:37–71. (pdf)
• Zimmermann, E. (2015) Templates as Affixation of Segment-sized Units: The Case of Southern Sierra Miwok. In: E. Raimy & Ch. E. Cairns (eds.), The Segment in Phonetics and Phonology, Wiley-Blackwell, 314-336.
• Czaykowska-Higgins, E. (1993). Cyclicity and stress in Moses-Columbia Salish (Nxaamxcin). NLLT, 11:197-278. (pdf)
• Kim, E.-S. & Pulleyblank, D. (2009). Glottalization and lenition in Nuu-chah-nulth. Linguistic Inquiry 40(4):567-617. (pdf)
• Jeffrey Adler, J. & Zymet, J. (2021) Irreducible parallelism in phonology: Evidence for lookahead from Mohawk, Maragoli, Sino-Japanese, and Lithuanian. NLLT 39:367-403. (pdf)
• Elías-Ulloa, José (2009) The distribution of laryngeal segments in Capanahua. IJAL 75(2):159- 206. (pdf)
• Guekguezian, P.A. (2021) Morphosyntax-phonology mismatches in Muskogee. Phonology 38:277-316. (pdf)

Books and Dissertations

• McCarthy, J. and Prince, A. (1993). Prosodic morphology. constraint interaction and satisfaction. ROA 485-1201. (on Axininca Campa)
• Buckley, E. (1994). Theoretical aspects of Kashaya phonology and morphology. CSLI, Stanford.
• Uchihara, H. (2013) Tone and Accent in Oklahoma Cherokee. Phd thesis, University at Buffalo, State University of New York. (pdf)
• Scancarelli, J. (1987). Grammatical relations and verb agreement in Cherokee. PhD thesis, UCLA. (pdf)
• Caballero, Gabriela. 2008. Choguita Raramuri (Tarahumara) phonology and morphology. PhD thesis, UC Berkeley. (pdf)
• Hargus, Sh. (1985)The Lexical Phonology of Sekani. PhD thesis, UCLA. (pdf)
• McFarland, T. A. (2009) The phonology and morphology of Filomeno Mata Totonac. PhD thesis, UC Berkeley. (pdf)
• Michael Fortescue (1984), West Greenlandic. London: Croom Helm.
• Applegate, R. B. (1972) Ineseno Chumash Grammar. PhD thesis, UC Berkeley. (pdf)
• Ulrich, H.U. (1986) Choktaw Morphophonology. PhD thesis, UCLA.
• Cowell, A. & Moss, A. (2008) The Arapaho Language. Boulder, CO: Colorado University Press. (pdf)
• Shaw, P.A. (1980) Theoretical Issues in Dakota Phonology and Morphology. Garland.
• Collord, Th. (1968) Yokuts Grammar: Chukchansi. PhD thesis, UC Berkeley. (pdf)
• Sloan, K. D. (1991) Syllables and Templates: Evidence from Southern Sierra Miwok. PhD.
thesis, MIT.
• Park. I. A (2012) Grammar of Hidatsa. PhD thesis, Indiana University. (pdf)
• NON-EXHAUSTIVE PARSING: PHONETIC AND PHONOLOGICAL EVIDENCE FROM ST’ÁT’IMCETS MARION GERDA CALDECOTT

Contact

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